Centre of Canadian Studies graduate student awarded Prize

Congratulations to doctoral student Darcy Leigh who today will be jointly awarded the 2009 Sir William Darling Memorial Prize.

The prize is awarded to University of Edinburgh students who "in the opinion of the Principal of that University for the time being, shall by his conduct, his example, his scholarship, or his pre-eminence in sport, have done in any year most to advance or enhance the reputation of the University.”

Darcy Leigh recently published “Colonialism, Gender and the Family in North America: For a Gendered Analysis of Indigenous Struggles,” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 9, 1 (2009).